Why use the telnet-based OPAC instead of the web-based OPAC?
• Specifying a library If you are using a telnet OPAC terminal physically located within a library in Oxford then the library context for the terminal may have been preset by the librarian. Otherwise, when you start a new telnet connection to the OPAC you will be asked to choose a library. Once a library has been chosen then it is fixed for the entire session. The display for an individual item record lists both bibliographic data, such as an item’s author and title, and Oxford-specific holdings data, for example which OLIS libraries have a copy. If the specified library holds a copy then this will be listed first, with the rest of the list being in alphabetical order by library name. This is particularly useful if you are interested in libraries like Wolfson College (WOL) or Zoology (ZOO), which appear a long way down an alphabetical list. A library cannot be set in this way in the web OPAC. The telnet OPAC also allows you to limit a search by library, i.e. only search for items withi
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